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Yann LeCun says students who focus only on coding risk falling behind their peers as AI evolves and that they should focus on subjects with a longer shelf life mathematics, physics and engineering.

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In a controversial move that would impact the quality of engineers produced in the country, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has made mathematics and physics at Class XII-level ...